Aboriginal Male Violence Against Aboriginal Women in Canada
Theses
Author/Creator
Wanda Jamieson
Description
Criminology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 1987.
Historical note:
Ruth Cuthand was born in Prince Albert, SK in 1954 and grew up near the Blood Reserve in Alberta. Her heritage is Plains Cree and Scots/Irish. Her Aboriginal culture and memories of her childhood experiences are often the inspiration for her art-making practice.Looks at one way to cross the cultural boundary in Aboriginal literature by examining the purpose of author Maria Campbell, in Halfbreed, Beatrice Culleton, in In Search of April Raintree, and Lee Maracle, in I Am Woman.
Discussion on the power of women and the inequality of paternalism, racism, sexism, and the materialistic society. Attached is a short poem titled The Red in Winter by Emma LaRocque. Entire issue on one pdf.
Scroll down to page 133 to read article.
Discussion on the effects of colonization, the solutions to a path of healing and the changes required to alter the future.